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Chapel of Our Lady of the Vale
Part of the Convent here, which provides a place of prayer and devotion for the Care Home residents, staff and nuns, but also offers weekly Mass on Thursdays open to all comers in the Bowdon Vale area. There was a time - when priests from St Vincent's, Altrincham, were plentiful - that Mass was celebrated daily, but this was reduced to Sundays and Thursdays, and now to only one day per week.
The Sunday service was well attended by Catholics from Hale, Altrincham and Bowdon and there was an active choir comprising both nuns and parishioners.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 11 Mar 2016
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Lady of the Vale Chapel
The chapel, which is dedicated to St. Emilie de Vialar is beside, and connected directly to the Lady of the Vale Nursing Home, run by the Order of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition. St. Emilie de Vialar was their foundress.
St Emilie's life story can be found here [http://stemilie.net/?page_id=1157].
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 27 Mar 2017
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Lady of the Vale
Care home, Bowdon Vale, Ashley Heath. See further details:
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Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 20 Aug 2022
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Lady of the Vale Nursing Home
The chapel connected to the nursing home is dedicated to St. Emilie de Vialar.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 26 Mar 2017
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Lady of the Vale Nursing Home
The nursing home has recently been repainted. Compare with this photograph in 2011 [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4444576]. To the left of the main building is the home's associated chapel.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 8 Oct 2016
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Bowdon Houses (9)
Lady-of-the-Vale Care Home with the adjoining Convent of St Emilie (red brick). The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition are an aging and depleted community who are now in need of care themselves rather than nursing others. To the left, also joined to the main house, is the Chapel where Holy Mass is said for the nuns and residents every Thursday morning.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 11 Mar 2016
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Bowdon Houses (8)
The Care Home of 'Lady of the Vale' at Bowdon Vale used to be a private Nursing Home run by Catholic nuns but, as the Sisters have aged, its staffing and management have been contracted out to lay people. The nuns live in the adjacent Convent of St Emilie.
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 11 Mar 2016
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Lady of the Vale Nursing Home
Lady of the Vale has operated as a nursing home since 1930. It is home to up to 39 residents.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 28 Dec 2011
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Road to Lady of the Vale
Private access road from Vale Lodge [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4815713] to Lady of the Vale Nursing Home (seen in the distance)[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4444576].
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 19 Jun 2015
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Vale Lodge, Grange Road
Lodge House at the entrance to Lady of the Vale Nursing Home and the Convent of Saint Emilie. A path to the right of the building leads down to the River Bollin.
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe
Taken: 19 Jun 2015
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